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0 530   432 406 466 1204 No casualties on the sixteenth instant. I take pleasure in reporting the good conduct of officers and men of the command throughout the engagement. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully Your obedient Servant, Milton A. Osborn, Captain Twentieth Indiana Battery. S. B. Moe, Major, and Assistant Adjutant-General, commanding. Colonel C. K. Thompson's report. Headquarters troops on N. & N. W. Railroad, Kingston Springs, Tennessee, February 24, 1865. Major: I have the honor to transmit the following report of the action of my command during the past campaign: On the seventh day of December, I reported to Major-General Steedman, in accordance with verbal orders received from department Headquarters, and by his directions placed my brigade in line near the city graveyard, the right resting on College street, and the left on the right of Colonel Harrison's brigade, where we threw up two lines of rifle-pits. On the eleventh o
them, and I think my orders are obeyed. Vacant houses, being of no use to anybody, I care little about, as the owners have thought them of no use to themselves. I don't want them destroyed, but do not take much care to preserve them. I am, with respect, yours truly, W. T. Sherman, Major-General Commanding. Major-General J. Wheeler, Commanding Cavalry Corps, Confederate Army. General Sherman to Wade Hampton. headquarters military division of the Mississippi, in the field, February 24, 1865. General: It is officially reported to me that our foraging parties are murdered after capture, and labelled Death to all foragers. One instance of a lieutenant and seven men near Chesterville, and another of twenty, near a ravine eighty rods from the main road, about three miles from Feastersville, I have ordered a similar number of prisoners in our hands to be disposed of in like manner. I hold about a thousand prisoners, captured in various ways, and can stand it as long as y